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"en.20120329.36.4-327-000"2
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"This report on Parliament’s estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2013 focuses on the idea of making savings, in other words, on the reduction of the budget at various levels. However, it advocates cuts where cuts should not be made, and says nothing about areas that could and should be called into question. We therefore voted for the proposed amendments tabled by our group, which were aimed at clarifying some of these issues. We agree that it is important to reduce excessive and disproportionate spending by Parliament, but it is important to ensure that such ‘savings’ are not made at the expense of making workers redundant, job insecurity or principles such as multilingualism. The defence of this principle made in the report is, at the very least, hypocritical, as it ignores existing limitations and shortfalls and advocates cuts in the field of translation and interpretation. Moreover, as a result of its own parameters, which it adopts in other areas, the report is too soft when it comes to the financing of the European parties. We do not agree with this as a matter of principle. Furthermore, using the rhetoric of frugality, several areas of the report seek nothing more than to legitimise and justify the brutal, so-called ‘austerity’ measures which are being imposed by governments and by the EU."@en1
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